The Age of Ash

Welcome to the new home of the Age of Ash online! If you want to see where the real show is at, check out the Age of Ash Wiki . Once you’ve created an account and joined the campaign, you can edit and create your own Wiki pages. All of my helpful How-To notes are at the bottom of the main Wiki page, so if you want to see what you can do right away go check that out.

Short-term To Do list:

Add the NPCs for the Pyramid of Shadows

Post some general campaign History and Creature sections to the Wiki.

finish posting Adventure Logs for the Library

Weekly Wiki episodes of “Cooking with Karavakos”

The Sundering, Ragnarok, The Night of Black Fire, Final Atonement.

Many mythical titles have come to adorn the events of this world’s end. In mythological history, no society or historian can agree as to what great power brought about that harsh judgment. The memory of entire civilizations perished in that long night, and those that remain have forgotten even their own chronology. Besides, what does it matter if the apocalypse happened a thousand years ago or yesterday?

The Age of Ash

The Age of Ash
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My thoughts on Weapon/Implement Mastery are… let’s just say that they have gone through many phases. I’m half of a mind to ban the feat completely, until upper-Paragon/Epic tier when it’s actually useful. Except, at that level the average party should really not even need it, because almost all the classes have accumulated some measure of ability to get or grant a big hit when they really need it. I’ve come around to the thinking that that feat is kind of a mistake, and am currently trying to brainstorm some method of fixing it. What you see there is an example of my efforts.

The fixed feat that I provide really only works at the Heroic tier, because at Paragon and Epic it actually would fall to the favor of classes that are of a lower basic ability score than others. It’s a work in progress.

In other news, take another look at the Character Creation page. Now I have feats in there for Water Elf Divination Seers, Dragonborn Swordmages, Vestige Pact Devas, and even the Chillbringer!

I love what you have with the character creation options. They really flavor the game. I especially can’t wait to try and make Ember with that soccerer heavy blade rule (although I am also tempted to wait until PH3 so I can truly make him a paladin/soccerer). But with all that said are you sure about the weapon/implement mastery feat rule? I thought they made that feat because they recognized that the monsters became unbalanced at higher levels? Then again, I can’t complain because that does just free up a feet which otherwise would have had to go to weapon mastery. Now I can spend it on something more colorful like hurl breath.

I don’t know. It depends on whether or not Ember could still be working to help the Frozen Suns, even though he is no longer associated with the organization. The Hunters provide a way to do that. Unless of course it makes more sense to have him off in some extra planar place doing who knows what. But I could picture him stopping in and saving the lives of some Hunters, just so they would intern report back to the Frozen Suns and thereby let the order know he’s still around. It would make sense if his goal is more to alter the Frozen Suns then rebel against them, which is what I had figured he would do before the Hunters came onto the scene.

It’s cool. Well, that kind of would depend on your intentions with him… If he’s going to come in as a player, then sure he deserves a player slot. Until that happens though, he should probably be an NPC so as not to clutter that sidebar. It can be changed easily enough when he does come in.

Whoops, sorry about the previous comment, or rather lack there of. But ya, anyway, I wanted to run an idea by you Dark Matter. I was thinking about making Ember, but then the thought came up – should he be a player character or an NPC? So ya, what do you think?

Ok, question for you all. Should we have some sort of standardized format for edits and so forth?

As an example, I present the Half Elves page, which lanceNapoleon very kindly created along with some other great articles, and which I added some DM fluff to. If, say, Ron decides to go in and write a paragraph blurb about his Half-Elf tribe, then going by the same format I suppose I would ask that he add the same little format line you see below.

Author: Dark_Matter. Go to the Edit Page link to see how I did this.

How does everyone feel about this? What about where we do spelling/grammar editing of someone else’s work?